Some people don’t really want to solve problems. They want to change the world for other reasons. That was the argument I made in Not Invented Here last year, a multi-author IEA publication that essentially elaborated on this meme…
One example is obesity, which we are told can only be tackled by fundamentally changing the food environment, banning advertising, taxing more products and demonising ‘Big Food’. None of this has ever actually worked anywhere. We do, however, now have GLP-1 drugs that work wonders for many people.Plenty of ‘public health’ academics are notably resistant to ‘fat jabs’ because what they really want is to fundamentally change the food environment, ban advertising, tax more products and demonise ‘Big Food’.
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